Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-04-23
TRANCE In A RAGE.
Germany to be Asked, After an Inves-
tigaiion, to Explain Her Arrest of
French Omcial.

PARIS. April 22.-The arrest of the
Fren,h Commissioner Schnaebeles, of
Pagny sur Moselle, by the Ger man police,
after he had been decoyed over the 'front.'
Ter. is regarded as a serious matter in
official circles. M. Goblet, the Prime
Minister, and NJ. Flourens, Foreign Min
lister, were in conference until midnight
last night for the purpose OF determining
what action to take in the premises, and
they again met this morning to further
consider the subject.
The Paix says that the government has
demanded an explanation of the arrest
from Germany.
The government will not complain to
Germany of the arrest until full in
qniries have been made into the case.
NJ. FloureDs will await the result of a
minute inquiry on the spot before demand.
ing reparation from Germany for the ar
rest.
N. Sarriep, Minister of Justice, has
sent the Procurator General to assist the
Procurator at Nancy In making an inves-
| ftigAtion into the arrest, and to report the
facts in the case. The Prefect of Meurthe.
-Moselle, the department in which
Pagny-sur- Mosellc is situated, has arrlv-
ed here tor the purpose of comforting
Il
rest.
NJ. Deroulepe, in an interview to-day,
gave the apathy and timidity which the
government has shown in dealing with
Germany as his reason fer resigning the
presidency Of the Patriotic League.
Later dispatches confirm the statement
that NJ. Schnaebeles was arrested on
French territory.
The French newspapers generally re-
gard the occurrence MS direct provoca-
tfon on Germsny's part, and exhort the
people to be calm and not play Prince Bis
marck's game. The Intransiq cant, of
which Henry Rochefort is editor, is the
only paper that is rabid in its comments
on the affair. The other Paris papers are
moderate In their references to it.
The performance of Wagner's opera
"Lohengrin," which was to have taken
place at the Eden Theatre in Paris to-
morrow, has been postponed, owing to
the feeling that has been aroused by the
frontier occurrence.
The Temps publishes a dispatch from
Strasburg, stating that the German Off
cials suspected M. Schnaebeles of having
dealings with persons in Germany for the
purpose VI obtaining information con-
corning the military measures being taken
around Metz for the use of the French
military officials.
The authorities of the Foreign Office
believe that the German government will
make an explanation of the affair that
will calm the present indignation felt by
Frenchmen. Political and financial
circles take gloomy view of the situa-
tion.
GERMANY's SUSPICIOUS ACTIONS.
BERLIN, April % 1t is announced
that the arrest of NJ. Schnaebeles was Or
dered by the Judge who had been con-
ducting Inquiries into reasonable prac-
tices In Alsace Lorraine.
The Kreuz Zeitung says that much sur
prise has been caused by the unexpected
arrival at Diedenhofen, on the French
frontier, near Metz, OF Lieutenant Gener-
al Count Won Waldersee, the Commissary
General, and numerous other officers OF
the general staff, who subsequently pro-
ceeded TO Moyeuvre, a few miles south of
Diedenhofen.
The arrest of NJ. Schnaebeles was the
outcome OF an ordinary judicial proceed
ing. The Judge who ordered his arrest
did so, 1t is stated, on evidence implicat-
ing in an attempt to subvert the allegiance
of the Alsat'ans to Germany. The Ger.
man authorities consider that the fact of
his being foreigner does not exempt M. .
Schnaebeles from punishment. They say
that the moment he is caught on German
territory he is under the Jurisdiction Of
the German courts.